The Battle of Zezhou triggered a series of chain reactions. The first one was that the Japanese ended the security war and retreated from the Eighth Route Army base area in embarrassment. During the retreat, they were ambushed several times by division commanders and brigade commanders. They lost troops and generals, and the base area rebelled. The Nine Route Siege Battle was won, although the price of victory was somewhat high;
The second one is the three-way public opinion war surrounding Chaoxiang Laojizi, which is in full swing;
First, the national government announced that they sent an elite team to assassinate Lieutenant General Chaoxiang, the culprit of the Jinling Massacre, and instigated the puppet army commander to launch the Zezhou Uprising;
The division headquarters of the 25th Division was wiped out, and hundreds of officers at the general and school level below Lieutenant General Chaoxiang were annihilated. The head of Lieutenant General Chaoxiang was as evidence, and the great victory in Zezhou was achieved;
The government picked peaches without any pressure and announced that the uprising puppet legion would be upgraded to the Central Military Division. Zhao Sihu was promoted to major general and division commander, and Zhou Weiguo was promoted to major general. They were awarded a Blue Sky and White Sun Medal. He was able to win two Blue Sky and White Sun Medals. Zhou Weiguo became the king of China. Star, the limelight is the same for a moment;
The major newspapers of the government carried large-scale reports, especially the newspapers with the photo of Lieutenant General Chaoxiang's head, which were sold out. Many Chinese people would rather not eat for three days to save some money to collect a newspaper as a family heirloom. Working overtime to print, paper is expensive in Luoyang for a while!
Then Yanzhou also broke the news that the Independent Battalion of the Eighth Route Army responded to the siege of the Nine Route Army in the base area, broke through Zezhou City, annihilated the 25th Division Regiment Headquarters and the base camp observation group led by Lieutenant General Chaoxiang, and severely damaged the 138th Regiment of the Zezhou defenders. Killed more than 2,300 people under Lieutenant General Asaka and Lieutenant General Okamoto of the 25th Division, seized a large number of weapons and equipment, and won the great victory in Zezhou;
This has aroused public opinion. People in major cities spontaneously organized parades to celebrate the victory of Zezhou. The Chinese people have not been so happy for a long time. The Independence Battalion has become a star unit. Many people are inquiring about the Independence Battalion of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to join the Independence Battalion. The camp is proud of fighting the Japanese;
The Japanese strongly denied it at first, only admitting that Lieutenant General Asaka was assassinated by a small group of despicable Chinese personnel. In an article in the Asahi Shimbun titled "The Flowers of Famous Generals Withered at the Foot of the Taihang Mountains," they blew the old Japanese soldier Asaka into an imperial soldier. outline, and threatened to use greater actions to promote jihad.
This is already a naked threat!
Yanzhou is not too scared. Even if there is no such thing as Chaoxiang, the Japanese will still raid when they should and burn, kill and loot when they should, because this is their nature.
The Yanzhou side once again produced a large amount of evidence, including some on-site photos taken when the Japanese division headquarters was breached. The corpses of senior officers in the headquarters completely disproved the Japanese lies, and also confirmed the independent battalion's attack on Ze Ze. The fact that a large number of Japanese were annihilated in Zhoucheng;
In particular, a photo showing the heads of senior generals such as Lieutenant General Asaka and Lieutenant General Okamoto, which resembled a Kyoto view, completely ignited the public opinion circle. Even mainstream newspapers abroad reprinted it in large sections.
This photo was listed as a cover photo by the Goshawk Kingdom's "Times Weekly", with the title "The Butcher's End." The current issue of "Times Weekly" sold out of stock, and several more issues were printed. Eagle Country lodged a stern protest!
The relationship between the two countries further deteriorated, and the Goshawk Country simply replied that this was the freedom of news reporting, a private act, and the government could not interfere.
The Eastern Japanese countries could only protest and let it go. They did not dare to challenge the Western powers for the time being;
Since the Japanese had just experienced a disastrous defeat in the security war and were unable to organize new revenge actions for a while, the matter remained at the level of a war of words. It was a rare occasion when they pinched their noses and gave in.
The 386th Brigade Independent Battalion has been completely put on the Japanese blacklist. As long as they slow down, they will definitely attack hard and eliminate them quickly. This is a story later.
People across the country actually celebrated for a period of time, and the anti-Japanese craze further increased. People donated money and materials to support the Anti-Japanese War, especially overseas residents. They organized donations on their own initiative. The money was finally sent through the channel of Goshawk Country. Arriving in Yanzhou, Yanzhou's urgent need was solved.
The negotiations between the Goshawk Kingdom and Yanzhou have also made breakthrough progress. They have supported Yanzhou with a huge amount of money in the form of private donations. They have not been lucky in terms of equipment and other things, so they have to support some funds privately. They have not yet contacted the Japanese He completely fell out of favor, so it was not obvious what he did.
In order to pick peaches, the government also electrified the independent battalion and promoted Chu Xiong to lieutenant colonel and battalion commander. These are all fictitious things and have no practical effect at all;
After reading it, Chu Xiong wiped his butt directly with it. He couldn't waste a good piece of paper. The Liucheng base area was very tight on funds, so save what you can!
In fact, the Independent Battalion did not get much practical things from this battle, and also suffered a large number of veteran casualties. The treatment of the wounded alone cost a large amount of the reserve fund of the base area. Many medicines were obtained in exchange for gold. Now the old camp There are only 150,000 silver dollars left in his account. The gold he got back from Anping has been exchanged for medicines. The base area is going to have a tight life.
Chu Xiong has no regrets. If he can kill the old devil Chaoxiang, it will be worth paying no matter how high the price is!
Of course, it is not without gains. Now the independent camp has become well-known, and people from all over the country have begun to come here. They are all capable people, and all come from the base area.
The arsenal's heartless cannon was improved again, its range was increased to 800 meters, its accuracy was improved, and standardized explosive packages began to be mass-produced.
The weight of the explosive bag has been reduced from 5 kilograms to 4 kilograms, but the power has not been reduced much. The main reason is that the materials in the explosive bag have been improved and replaced with irregular small steel sheets, which are more lethal;
All the gun barrels produced in the first batch were eliminated and recycled, and replaced with second-generation gun barrels. A total of 32 guns were produced and equipped, 16 of them were deployed in the old camp, and 16 guns were set up in a separate gun company. In this way, there were two heartless guns in the base area. A gun battery and a machine gun, one of which was located in the old camp;
Chuxiong sent people to the black market to purchase large quantities of yellow explosives at high prices. Many of them were military supplies for the Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army. As long as you were willing to spend the money, they would sell you the guns.
The three main companies were engaged in side jobs in the periphery, and Chu Xiong became a rare idler. His attention began to return to the construction of the base area, and he began to play the game of private visits on incognito servers.
After experiencing the pain of rebuilding the base area, he had to see if the people's lives could go on. The first stop he chose was Gaojiacun!
